Sunday, March 11, 2012

ext2explore: Helps Windows to access Linux Partitions

Windows &  Linux bridged by ext2explore 
Now-a-days people are no more satisfied with Windows  as their only OS performing in their system. Features & liveliness are more  in other OS like  Mac, Ubuntu, Open Suse, Fedora, Xfce, Google Chrome etc. More desktop environments are fetched which are more superior to Windows  like KDE, Gnome-shell, Razor Qt, Unity etc. Still Windows  is more user friendly  than any others and used most by the users.
Problem is to access files from Linux Partitions(ext2/ext3/ext4) from windows  desktop. While working in Linux/Unix/Mac the default target folders are attached with Home folder of Linux Partition. And we often forget to transfer them to our hard disk and it is been required at the time we are using Windows  .And the only way to access is to restart the system. As there is no in-built system to access Linux Partitions. But here a very light-weight programme is available known as ext2explore. The main feature is that it works without installation and very user friendly.
  • Download ext2exploreExtract it.
  • Now the application file named "ext2explore" has to run.(Make sure that you are running it as Administrator)
  • Otherwise it will create a file with a caution dialog box(see in screen-shots) & also it's not going to work as you wish.
  •  After running as "Administrator" Search your required files & folders. And Right click over it & choose save option from the context menu.
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 The above screen-shots are taken from a customized Windows Desktop, so don't bother about it.

1 comment:

  1. ext2fsd is a better solution I think. It can be installed, mount partitions automatically, can write to ext2/ext3 partitions and also read ext4 partitions.

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